[2012-12-17 11:21:50 +0100] Pierre Schmitz: > The only thing we can care about is the license. If it's free software > or we have permission to distribute it, I don't see any problem here.
Sure; why bother abiding by the law? You may live in Germany but what you do on overseas servers such as gerolde still falls under US law. > If > we would accept software patents as valid we would not be able to ship > any package. Not all patents are equal: many are obvious trolls (easy to invalidate, e.g. because of existing prior art); some however are serious. How do we spot these? Well, by doing the least we can do: listening to upstream... If a specific piece of software is subject to sufficient patent doubt for upstream developers to bother coming up with a less encumbered version, it seems plain unreasonable not to go for the latter... -- Gaetan
